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Nada: DOUBLE UPDATE BECAUSE OF REASONS!

Warning(s): OOC-ness, Crap Quality

Chapter Fourteen

Watching the world from so high up was both transfixing and dizzying. It amazed me how easy it had been to climb up here or how my body knew where to go in the first place. They say it was the tallest tower in all of Twilight Town and they weren't wrong. From the clock tower, it was easy to see where Twilight Town ended and another began. The world seemed so much smaller than it did from down below. And the sky… oh how the sky could captivate you. From the deepest shades of red to the lightest shades of yellow, twilight had never looked so breath taking until now.

How long have I been up here?

It doesn't matter.

Is Cloud looking for me?

It doesn't matter.

Is anyone?

It doesn't matter.

Would they ever find me?

No, because it doesn't matter. So take the leap, make the fall, it doesn't matter, just end it all.

I stood out on the ledge of the clock tower, my eyes focused on the eternal sunset. Peace wrapped around me like a blanket, settling the onslaught of emotions that coursed through my veins since I left the house.

I was alone on this ledge. It was too high to see the civilians down below, too high to keep me alive, too high for me to give a damn. No one would stop me, I decided. No one cared to anymore, because Hayner had been right and so had Riku. Silentium was not just something to keep me quiet; it was a destructive curse that would follow me for as long as I lived. Happiness was unobtainable no matter how hard I tried to reach it. I just never would.

"Roxas?"

Not even with you…

"How did you know I would be here?" I asked with a sigh. "I didn't tell anyone."

"Cloud called me." He replied, his voice saddened. "He told me what happened and said you left the house when you thought no one was looking. He didn't know where you were going, but I had a hunch. It looks like my hunch was right."

"Don't talk me out of it." I said sternly. "I made my decision."

"I'm not going to talk you out of it," he climbed onto the ledge beside me, his right hand intertwining with my scarred left.

"What are you doing?"

Sora gazed at the world below, apprehension in his eyes. I felt him squeeze my hand as if in reassurance, though I wasn't sure who he was trying to reassure.

"I made my decision too," he murmured in response. "I already told you once, I can't live without you."

I frowned, disbelieving what I was hearing. "You did it before."

He shook his head in disagreement. "I wasn't whole before, Roxas. Not until I met you. You made me whole." Sora turned his blue eyes toward me, his love plain as day. "I'm not about to let my other half leave without me."

He brought our linked hands toward his lips and placed a gentle peck against my scarred knuckles. Panic began to eat at me as the world became all too real. This was not what I had planned!

"Do you have any idea what you're saying?" I couldn't keep the urgency and fear out of my voice. "Do you even know what you're planning to do?! If we jump, we'll die! You won't wake up. You won't see Leon, your dad or Riku or Kairi. You won't see anything after this!"

"Maybe not," he turned his gaze toward the horizon, his face at peace. "But we'll be together in the end. That's all that matters."

"Why!?" Desperation gripped me at his words. My vision began to blur, the hurricane of emotions too much to bear. "Why are you doing this?! You're not tainted or defiled! You're not broken, Sora! So why doesn't anything else matter to you?!" I nearly screamed at him.

He turned to me, a small, innocent smile gracing his lips.

"I told you that too. It's because I love you more than anything in the world. I would give up everything just to see you happy and if this is the only way, then so be it."

My heart stopped, his confession too heavy to be real.

My lungs felt breathless as though his words stole the very air from me.

My mind went blank, too shocked to comprehend.

But it was real, he had said it. He was here on the ledge with me. He was here holding my hand. He was here ready to throw the world away… just for me.

Why sacrifice everything for me?

"It's because I love you."

"You're worth the cause even if you don't think so."

"I made a promise to protect him, even if I have to protect him from himself, I'm not leaving him."

"I love him too much to walk away."

His voice filtered into my mind, memories upon memories replayed with his voice as the narrative. All his promises, all his confessions—all truths, never lies.

How long have I been so blind?

Before I knew it, my vision blurred and a painful sob escaped my lips. I yanked him backwards so that our bodies fell back onto the ground of the clock tower instead of on the cement down below. He wrapped his arms around me tight; his heart beat so loud I could hear it within his chest. I cried into his torso the tears that had wanted to spill for a year since the nightmare began.

For the first time in the longest, I felt free.

Freedom had never tasted so sweet.

Nada: Double update because this chapter is short and I hate short chapters. Also, I didn't want to hold the epilogue hostage now that the story is over.